Books on Art and Music

The art of ivory is one of those branches of aesthetic productions in India that not only charms the elite and the erudite but also the common folk...

A Historical Study of Indian Music covers a wide range from the earliest historical traces of our music to the present day. At a time most historic...

A Survey of Indian Sculpture, divided into seven chapters, deals with the story of the plastic art of the subcontinent as long as it remained vital...

"India is a civilization of many images, a culture of many visual feasts, a tradition where the visible and the palpable are as important as the or...

Aksayanivi: Essays presented to Dr. Debala Mitra in admiration of her scholarly contributions (Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica) Details of Book Author ...

This book has been prepared with the intention of making available to a wider readership two earlier exhibition and book reviews in a revised and e...

Tun-Huang is the dream child of the Avatamsaka tradition of contemplation as it unfolded in Bamiyan. This richly illustrated book examines the Tun-...

With growing interest in North Indian classical music, both in India and abroad, and inspite of several books on specific topics which have appeare...

The book Facets of South Indian Art and Architecture is a stimulative and perceptive survey of different aspects of South Indian art, architecture,...

After independence there was spurt in research work on Indian Classical music. Nevertheless, there was also a great need for compilation of researc...

India is a land of several goddess cults. The present book attempts to study the cult of Devi Bagalamukhi from a socio- cultural stand point. Devi ...

The present book attempts to study the cult of Devi Lalitambika as an individual Goddess like those of Siva, Visnu, Laksmi and others, installed in...

The book is a kind of encyclopaedia on Indian Mythology, since it has covered almost all the aspects of it. A number of illustrations/figures of In...

North Indian or Hindustani art music has a wealth of vocal genres and instrumental styles, some of them rooted in the past and others of a more rec...

"Hindustani Music: A tradition in transition" is a wide-ranging survey of the North Indian tradition of classical music during the post-independenc...

Hindustani Raga-S Index Will Prove Quite Useful To All Musicians, Scholars And Students Of Music Who Need To Consult The Main Contemporary Devanaga...

Hindustani (Indian) music has become one of the most sought-after musical systems of the world. The interest exhibited for this music is continuous...

In the Hindu pantheon of gods, Vinayaka is the only deity who was born with a normal head, but beheaded by Lord Siva (his father) and again fixed w...

In the Hindu pantheon of gods Skanda Karttikeya the son of Siva, is the only god who is endowed with six faces and twelve hands and named as Sanmuk...

This book presents insightful reflections on different aspects of Indian music - its roots, philosophy, growth, history, guru-shishya parampara, gh...

Puppetry originated in India and travelled across the seven seas to the Eastern and Western world as vouched by many scholars, Puppets dated back t...

The remains of Bodhgaya date from as early as the Maurya and Shunga eras, as well as from later Gupta and Pala periods. Marking the spot of Buddha'...

Although many collections of ragadhari vocal compositions have been published over the years, there is a dearth of instrumental compositions. Hence...

What is modal music? Why did the ancients consider music the key of sciences, related to metaphysics? Are there many "musics", as there are many la...